Edward D. Hess > Quotes

“Growth is much more than a strategy. It is a complex change process that involves the right mindset, the right processes, experimentation, and an enabling environment.”
― Edward Hess

“Learning is a process of modifying or completely changing our mental models based on new experiences or evidence.”
― Edward D Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

“We have learned that to enable learning, an environment must be trusting, humanistic, and positive. It must promote high emotional engagement; mutual accountability; open-mindedness; permission to speak freely; reporting of and tolerance for mistakes; a maniacal vigilance against arrogance, elitism, and complacency; and the devaluation of status and hierarchy.”
― Edward D Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

“A good entrepreneur is a good teacher.”
― Edward D. Hess

“Eichenwald, Kurt. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.”
― Edward D. Hess, So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap

“McGrath, Rita Gunther, and Ian C. MacMillan. The”
― Edward D. Hess, So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap

“Grow or die” is not based in science or business reality”
― Edward Hess

“Growth is a lot like Mother Nature. She can be very good and she can be very bad: think hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes.”
― Edward Hess

“Hire slowly and fire quickly.”
― Edward Hess

“Every business needs clear answers to the “3Ws”: What am I going to sell? Who is the buyer? Why are they going to buy from me?”
― Edward Hess

“1990 book The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization,”
― Edward D. Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

“Harmony exists when what you feel, what you think, and what you do are consistent. Many”
― Edward D. Hess, Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

“Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today’s world are the result of such neglect.”87”
― Edward D. Hess, Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change

“High employee engagement generally results from employees having an emotional attachment to the organization that”
― Edward D. Hess, Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

“Testing our critical thinking requires us to clearly state our beliefs or points of view.”
― Edward D Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

“To be good critical thinkers requires intellectual humility and a healthy respect for the magnitude of what we don’t know.”
― Edward D Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

“As Edward O. Wilson says, “In our daily lives we imagine ourselves to be aware of everything in the immediate environment. In fact, we sense fewer than one thousandth of one percent of the diversity of  molecules and energy waves that constantly sweep around and through us.”
― Edward D. Hess, Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change

“gone poorly and try to figure out why they’ve gone poorly is a way of surfacing problems”
― Edward D Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

“Badaracco, Joseph. Leading Quietly. Boston: HBS Press,”
― Edward D. Hess, So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap

“Environments of uncertainty, ambiguity, and change require exploration, invention, experimentation, and adaptation, all of which require learning.”
― Edward D Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization